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Reference numberDM/5/105
LevelItem
Title'Copy of the Report of the Committee for inspecting the Repository'
Date17th-18th century
Description"...we have begun with the Repository observing it to be in much the greatest Disorder...Among the Human Curiosities we find the mummy in particular to be much damaged & the skeletons to want cleaning. Among the Quadrupeds we observe the musk deer to be much decayed having no hair on its body...The Birds are generally in a very bad condition; many of them having lost their feathers & severall having nothing remaining beside their head & feet...Upon this view it appears that unless orders be given to provide proper cases to preserve such bodies as are not yet destroyed & to receive such as may hereafter be given to the Society the greatest part of the Repository will soon perish & be come useless".
Extent1 side
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Access conditionsOPEN - but photocopying forbidden.
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